This group is to gather and offer in public archives historical information about the 1978 Longest Walk, initiated by Dennis Banks and conducted by the American Indian Movement from San Francisco to Washington DC from February to July, which successfully stopped fifteen different anti-Indian Bills in Congress and resulted in the passage of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1979.

The Elders at the end days camp at Greenbelt Park Maryland compiled their report to the government and the people, entitled, "Spirituality is the highest form of politics."

The Sacred Run 2006 is being conducted by Dennis Banks following in this tradition as a prayer for peace and Mother Earth, starting with sunrise ceremony on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay on Saturday February 11 walking 10 miles per day and running the rest on schedule for arrival ceremony on the April 22 Earth Day in Washington DC.

In his Longest Walk Speech, the Most Venerable Nichidatsu Fujii at age 93 said: "We are about to bury the era of warfare, the era of violence, the era of murder and destruction...The civilization of the new era, the era of perpetual peace, will be the spiritual civilization...The religious faith that the Native Americans have carried down to this day will be the fountainhead (source) for creating lasting peace in the future."

http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/Guruji16July78.html

See articles below linked from this site:

http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/APM-Lakota.html

MSNBC archives story of Wounded Knee 1973

Biography of American Indian Movement Longest Walk initiator Dennis Banks

Dennis Banks speaks about Leonard Peltier

2002 Ceremony marking the 24th Anniversary of the Longest Walk.

Phillip Deere's Longest Walk Speech at US Capitol (excerpt:)


"No more are we going to stand around...
This is not the end of The Longest Walk!"


http://www.umass.edu/legal/derrico/phillip_deere.html